Looking for a compact OS

awelsh · 13-12-2008, 06:00 PM

Heres the deal, in a week or two ill be getting myself a extra monitor for my laptop. So while im at it I have 3 old pc's lying about in the garage, cant use them at the moment becuase everyone in the house has laptops and we threw the old CRT screen away becuase they were crap

The specs on them are roughly as follows:

PC1- 128MB RAM, 20GB HDD, Pentium III, not sure about MHZ, CD Drive only
PC2- 256MB RAM, 20GB HDD, Pentium II, not sure about MHZ(its same as pc1, same case, only difference is more RAM and dvd drive)
PC3- 512MB RAM, 70GB HDD, Pentium 4(I think) again not sure about MHZ

I dont have a clue if theres a problem with 2 of them but I had this before, when I hooked PC2 and 3 up to a monitor,keyboard,mouse etc.. They turned on fine but then just made constant beeping noises. Im pretty sure it was a fault with the items attatched to them because the two of them did it.

Im looking for a decent OS for the 128mb RAM machine, ive got xp on both of the others and it works fine. Well it did when they were put away anyway, not sure what state their in now.

Ive got a copy of windows NT 4.0 here, so I suppose I could use that, but does anyone have any suggestions? Id like a change from windows and I could use it as a test machine I suppose.

Thanks

Flisker · 13-12-2008, 06:05 PM

nearly any Linux OS will do

or windows 95

**Recursion** · 13-12-2008, 06:11 PM

Damn Small Linux

awelsh · 13-12-2008, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by Flisker

nearly any Linux OS will do

or windows 95

Like hell will I be using 95

is be using NT as a last resort lol, its got XP on there now, but from when I remember having it, it was slow as hell.

Originally Posted by *****

Damn Small Linux

Will have a look at that now

anyone got any more suggestions? +rep to you two

Josh-H · 13-12-2008, 06:16 PM

Ubuntu should round fairly decently.

awelsh · 13-12-2008, 06:23 PM

Originally Posted by Josh-H

Ubuntu should round fairly decently.

I have got a CD for that and i took a look on the ubuntu website and it says you need 256MB RAM

EDIT: also just noticed I burnt Ubuntu onto a DVD disk -.- so ill have to download it again if it will work